Amy Johnson Crow introduced the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge on her No Story Too Small blog in 2014. This year she continued the challenge, but also added a weekly theme. This week’s theme is Where There's a Will: Do you have an ancestor who left an interesting will? Have you used a will to solve a problem?… Continue reading 52 Ancestors (2015) #18 Simeon Leete

The topic for this week was "so far away", and my ancestor this week is John Leete, born about 1500 and died 25 Dec 1551, from Eversdon, Cambridgeshire. I decided on the furthest away in time, as I had already done a post on the furthest away in distance (William Edward Ball, born in Sweden,… Continue reading 52 Ancestors (2015) #6 John Leete

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